Wednesday, 19 April 2017

Le Tondu arrives

My small ebay purchase arrived today. I now have an original Hinton Hunt to command my French forces.

He has been partly painted and should clean up easily. The horse has been painted brown and not as Napoleons Grey Marengo

The mystery is solved. The horse code on the underside of the base is BNH10. A British horse and indeed the horse used to mount Wellington.

So my Napoleon is riding Copenhagen. Perhaps the previous owner modelled this on an alternative history and instead of Napoleon losing Waterloo where his horse, Marengo was captured, he wins and captures Wellingtons horse Copenhagen.

A classic Napoleonic pose shows the horse furniture in detail.

Another image shows more ornate horse furniture.

Anyway I will strip both the horse and paint as Marengo. A FNH10 horse may turn up in which case I could always remount Le Tondu

About Me

I have been wargaming since 1969 and over that time have collected many different periods.
Over the last 7 years I have gone back to my wargaming roots re discovering the rules I used in my early days including the classic works - Charge and the Wargame.
In 2017 I started collecting Hinton Hunt and other classic Napoleonic figure ranges.